Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.Of the first song, aNight Song Invocations, a Powell said aI have joined different
pieces of a#39;folk literaturea#39; to form the text. ... 11 In the years intervening between
Filigree Setting and Little Companion Pieces, Powell had evolved his own
idiomatic form of twelve-tone serialism. ... in which all local and global aspects of
form arose from free polyphonic play within the matrix defined by the intervallic
properties ofanbsp;...